The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 25, 1922, Page 1

Tonight and « Maximum, 72. ‘Today Ex Ii()! VOLUME 24, NO. 129. has to get rid of Dr. Read, he should take te munching Winesaps. An apple a Gay hoops the Gocter away. . Feature stunt at the grocers’ plo murder in Los Angeles Li'l Gee Gee believes we should have an anti- hammer sale Inw. eee “Light wines and beer” are ap- Proved by 63 per cent of the 200,000 Votes thus far received im the Liter- ary Digest’s prohibition poll. Gosh, and we voted 199,905 times @urselves! ‘The real radio dumbbell is the Woodmen of the World hold thetr Right. No, Clarice, all of the Wood men are not Poles. ee Seattle's new hotel will cont $300. 009 more than was originally plan- ned. Let's spend the $300,000 for spe- ¢ial platinum-lined spittoons. ; 3 of : What we need tn 4 Beattie iss mint- mums graft lew. . by A @octor lately married a girl > = whom he had ushered into the world 20 years ago.—London Opinion. Love at first sight? ee “Atlantic City peddler arrested for putting cocaine in the hot dog sand. wiches,” We-always thought they put In arsenic. . . After a pair of flannel trousers has been washed! a few times the owner has no reom to criticise short skirta. ee POEMS OF PASSION She hit me with a pickax, But she didn’t mean no harm. She threw me down a flight of stairs And busted my right arm. She kicked me in my countenance, "Cause she’s a hardbolled dame, But aside from that she’s pretty nice And I love her Just the same. eee Honest tuh goodness, Boston has an undertaker named O. U. Cheerto, eee Mayor Brown says tf Dr. Read ts fired he can.cut $206,900 off the 1923 | budget and can get rid of 46 political ineurables. Gosh, this sounds familar! oes It is getting so a girl has to show some speed to get chased. oe ‘This miny be an awful country, but there are a lot of us who have never skipped a mea oee “To keep cool,” says old Doc Evans, “avold aleoholic drinks.” We would, Doc, but the boot- leggers are so doggone persist ent! & — moderate westerty ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Ky _————— 26th birthday party here tomorrow | Wednesday, fatr; rinds. Mintgium, 54. noon, 59. Performance Beats All Expectation on First Night’s Showing By S. B. Groff More magnificent and | | ? : i i i & 7 <F & 5 ¢ in Ny Hl Hi ! j 7 i as : ell actors, suloists and chorus. Long tefore the passion play wan | gan streaming toward the Stadium lin groups, gradually growing in number, until the great how! was three-quarters filed, at 730, when the untversity chimes rang out in | picturesque music. ‘The mammoth stage was & riot of color, when actors and | chorus, garbed in biblical costumes, en- tered. As darkness enveloped the opening gun was fired, the stage became alive with multi-colored to the scenes of the nativity, the crucifixion, resurrection and the great throng stirred by the tremendous theme of the play. |dence of having been elaborately trained, and the pageant was pro- (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) | -—|TO BUILD NEW HOTEL AT ONCE | Meeting Held Tuesday to Appoint Committees Work looking toward the early construction of Seattle's new hotel, which will cost between $2,900,000 | and $2,000,000, Iw to proceed at once lOfticers and directors of the Com- munity Hotel company of Seattle met in the Chamber of Commerée at the call of Frank Waterhouse, president, ‘Tuesday morning to appoint commit | tees to expedite construction. | Committees will be named to make recommendations in regard to leasing a hotel to an operating company, for the appointment of a trustee for the bondholders, a registrar for the stock- \ holders, and to supervise other mat lters of business that the present board of directors and officers may undertake. | "Permanent officers and a perma nent board of diréctors will be elect- ed shortly by the 4,600 stockholders. Every person who bought @ bond is {a stockholder. Are You Ready to Buy? Why wear yourself all out running here @nd there, | looking for a home, or @ | house to rent? The STAR | CLASSIFIED daily carries many opportunities in homes of many sizes and values, Let The Star Classified do your shopping for you ‘The Wayfarer cast gnve every evt-) On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Rotered as Second Clans Mi ——_—_—— HENRY AND WILLIAM WALKING ARM IN ARM EMPORIA, Kan, July 25.—-Gov. Henry J. Allen and William Allen White, “tridadiy foes,” treated Emporia to a display of their “Da- mon and Pythias love” today. Patting each other on the back, they walked arm in arm sbout the campus of the state normal school here, forgetting their trou bles of lnat week, which resulted in the arrest of White on orders of his “buddy” for posting strik- ete’ “sympathy” cards MAYOR TO KEEP FIGHTING READ Balked by Council, Says He Will Continue Attack After being balked by the city coun- that he would renew his attempt at subsequent council meetings. The action of the city was their first break with mayor. Counctiman 0. 'T. Erickson caat the Qnly vote favoring the dismissal of | Read. / « Mayor Brown gave as his reasons |for requesting the removal of the) [health commissioner waste and ex-| fore new After reading about that atrocious | scheduled to begin, the crowds be. | travagance tn the operation of the |’, 01 | department “If Read in diaminned.* he eaid, “T! jean save $50,000 on this year's bud | met, $209,000 next year, and I can ‘separate 46 political tncurables from | | the payroll.” |FEAR STEAMER | |LOST AT SEA!) PORT ARTHUR, Tex., July 25.—~/ Fears for the safety of the steamer Chartes A. Bratey, 75 miles northwest | of Tampico, were felt today when | | wireless communication with the} Port Arthur nayal station ceased, =| ‘The last message received here} said the crew was taking to the open | sea in lifeboats, | First messages from the Braley | were intercepted at 6 o'clock this| | morning, saying: | “Steamship Charles Braley ainking | 5 miles northwest Tampico. All | hands ati!l on hoard at this time, dut preparing to abandon ship at any time.” TEXAS BALLOT) FEATURES TWO, DALLAS, Texas, July 25.—Earl B. Mayfield, carrying the support of| the Ku Klux Klan, and James A Ferguson, impeached former gover- nor opposed. to the kian and to the federal reserve system and an advo- cate of light wines and beer, prob- the Texas democratic primaries for | |the honor of succeeding United | | States Senator Charles A, Culberson. | With 455,000 votes counted early | today, coming from 238 out of 251] {counties in the state, Ferguson was | leading Culberson for second place! }in Saturday's primary by 16,289 votes ahd additional returns are ex pected to increase his lead. Mayfield is aswured of first place. Governor Neff has been renomin- lated and will stand for re-election without the necessary of a run-off. 2 Bandits Hold Up Hotel Night Clerk the Congress hotel, Fourth ave. and Madison st., opposite the Y. M. C. A., late Monday night, two bandits, one The Po- black revolver, Langler said. bandits fled after the robbery. lice have found no trace of them. |Taxpayers Discuss 30-10 Bill Tuesday | John }an John Doe that the | away, in private, At the Fostoffies at idos. A. Sloan Gave Away Fortune as “John Doe”; Dies Penniless Doe he always headed the list whenever The Star started & sud-seription ® charitab purpose. It w went out, stealthily and un der cover of dark. ness, to perform anonymous deede of kindness. And it was as John Doe that he gave the money that Joseph A. Sloan made in public J. A Sloan . . And therein lies the real story of why Joseph A. Sloan, ence a commanding figure in the ship- building world, was found dead Monday night in a cheap Japa- nese lodging house at 760 Jack- non st. There Was a bullet hole thru his revolver which he had purchased by pawning |the last of his earthly possessions— His shirt cuffs sprawl: | forehead—inflicted by a his cuff links, ed open around his stiffened wrist mute reminders of the travesty o! life. Beattie, wi {| hibition Enforcement SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1922. Defy’ Govern- ment; Armed Men Raid Towns KINGSDALE, Minn., July 25 —For nine years Charles KR. Grace bas been fighting lawless. Nene alone in this little settlement Today Grace had the federal gov- ernment behind him. But the government ts powerless without evidence. Getting the evi. denoe appeared to be an almost im- i Wiis: ent camp on the recky tory are sentries with long range rifles, Their stilt and shacks are hidden away in the dense woods that are virtually impassable to any but ex. perienced woodsamen. The moonshiners have the “drop” lon any person that comes within range. ‘The Intensive wartere on Grace JAand his family started three months jako when Grace reported the moon shiners, resulting in the seizure of 20 stills by federal agents, Light Prosecution left them free to resume operations. They started to “get Grace.” Three weeks ago they burn- jel hin three lumber camps three miles west of here. The damage was extimated at $2,000. Last week they dynamited his $14,000 hotel, injuring two men and throwing Grace's three daughters from their beds. Last Saturday night about 15 of the gang rode thru tha, four. block square settlement and “shot up” the place. Windows crashed and doors were pierced by bullets. Grace, with Sheriff Hawley and County Attorney Roberts, of Pine City, went to the Twin Cities and en- jMated federal aid. Distrtet TO. Chief 8. B. |Quale agreed to help them clean up When he had been wealthy he had |the gang. scattered his money to with careless abandon. the needy But, when |and bought the townsite and a large Grace moved here nine years ago the tables were turned and he was|timber acreage from the Soo Line. poor as the poorest that he had help: ed, he did not ask aid. Instead he | He not only owns the town, but is |the merchant chief of the district pawned his cuff links for a suicide|There is no large town within a weapon. . Altho friends had realized Sloan's fortunes were on the ebb, reached his last penny, ‘AVAL ARCHITECT | DURING WAR that ably will meet in the second heat of | +e. nad no idea that he had actually radius of 40 miles, In his efforts to make Kings- dale » peaceful place he has brought four preachers here in the Inst three years, Every one of them was driven from town. One of them was stoned, “T have $60,000 invested here,” anata During the war Sloan was naval|/Grace. “I am going to stick, My architect for the Sloan Shipbuliding | family Is going to stick, too, We are company, of which his brother, Phil-| going to win.” ‘ lip Sloan, is president The company did a tremendous But, in 1918, they be. The sh! wealthy men gan to get in difficulties (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) PORTLAND, July While phy: siclan® today were working dressed as a sailor, held up and rob-| Stewart Johnson, who fs at a hospi-| bed Sam Langler, night clerk, of $§0/ tal with a bullet wound In his abdo- cash, One of the pair carried a large| men, police were holding J. F. Roy, special deputy of Kast St, Johna, sheriff of Clackamas county and at fiee, who Is charged with establiahment last night. a chase sald they To discuss taxation matters in gen jeral and the proposed 30-10 initiative lin particular, the state federation of |taxpayers’ associations was to meet at 2 p. m. Tuesday in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, J. T. Lyle is president of the federation and George ©. Congdon, secretary and treasurer, business during the war and both of the Sloans were rated as extremely ping board, dissatisfied with progress MAN WOUNDED, | Walking boldly into the lobby ot| DEPUTY HELD 1 over tache of the federal prohibition of- having fired the shot in a Chinese noodle Pollcemen who arrested Roy after found him fn a years old, dies jn state insané hospt- tal after being inmate for 53 years, “1 IQUOR BARON” STEALS WOMEN Charged With Luring Vic- tims to Mountains CINCINNATI, Ohfo, July 25.— Charges that a moonshine “liquor baron,” enthroned high in th mountain fastnesses of Kei tucky, is responstble for the mys- terious’ disappearance of sla women during the last half-year, were made Carl Schutt, prominent musician, here today. Sichuett declared his wife, Anna Mae, 27, was a victim of the alleged moonshine chief, who after mistreat ing her forced her to poison herself, | under threat of @ tortuous death. doorway, with not only the gun with} Schuett claimed that with the as. which the shooting was done, but aj sistance of friends he had solved the broken bottle which had contained | mystery of the mountain chief, fol- | moonshine, lowing the disappearance of Anna ————- Mae, several weeks ago. LEXINGTON, Ky.—Sarah Arnett,| Authorities recently were puzzled negress, accredited with being 106] over finding the body of a girl named Anna Mae in the little mountain (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) Per Year, by Matl, #6 to $9 * & & * Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard ~-Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers Reviving one of the most cele- brated murder cases in the crim- inal annals of the Northwest, Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard has re- turned to the state to fight for the license which she lost in 1912, when she was convicted of starv- ing one of her patients to death at her sanitarium in Olalla, Kit- sap county. e Dr, Hazzard spent two years in prison, but was then paroled and lat- er given a full pardon by the late Gov, Ernest Lister, It wording of this pardon that she will base her campaign she was restored to all her privileges, The Seattle Star under the Act of Congress March §, 1879, Dr.Hazzard Tries Comeback Effort Recalls Death Case | is on the | "healing and says the whole world By {t, she says,|way to regain health is thru fast- and the chief of these privileges she | holds to be her right to practice in| spent in prison she dismissed as mat- the state. “I am willing,” she said Tues- day, “to submit to an examina- tion at any thne—if — competent board of examiners can be found.” * This, however, brings up quite a|Port Orchard in 1912, assumed inter- problem, simple tho ft mi Dr. y sound. tice “healing by makes it rather difficult to determine | Hazzard {fs the only person) woman whom she was charged with | ever Meensed in this state to prac-| starving to death was a British sub- fasting’’—which | fect, and the prosecution was Investi- »@——> THE NEWSPAPER WITH A 15,000 CIRCULATION LEAD OVER ITS NEAREST COMPETITOR <—@ NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED BY BOARD! HOM EDITION * 8 *# TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ADOPTE | a METHO OF WAR U. S. Takes Charge of Coal Strikes WASHINGTON, July national emergency existe ority to each of the following modities: Food, food for live stock, able products, coal, coke and fuel 6 The commission also ordered” who would be qualified to examine; her on the subject. 1 This, tho, Dr. Hazzard says, fs not her worry, but the state's. I have been restored to my declared, give me back my license. The method of doing it is for, the state to decide.” Dr. Hazzard is just as firm an ex- ponent as ever of her method of will eventually admit that the only ing. Her trial and the years that she ters of light importance. “I was convicted of gross ignor- ance by an ignorant jury” is the way she puts it, “so 1 s¢e nothing to be ashamed of.” Her case, when {t came to trial In because the natignal importance, (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) Merchants’ Show Is “Too Big for Words” By E. P. Chalcraft “Why, I didn’t know they made THAT here!” Perhaps more than any other remark, this is thrust at attendants who man the booths in the Bell st. terminal, where thousands of persons Tuesday were viewing the great Pacific Northwest Merchants’ and Man- ufacturers’ exposition. “Yos, Indeed, ma'am,” the alert young exhibitor replies, “manufac: tured right here.in Washington, Per- haps you'll be interested in our liter- ature.” ADJECTIVES FAIL TO DESCRIBE Dozens, scores, hundreds — such terms fail as ingloriously to convey an idea of the number and extent of the exhibits as do adjectives to desoribe their wide variety and in terest Daylight movies, miniature hay baler, knitting machines and candy; the smallest complete pulp and paper mill in the world, Kitchen devices, clothing and toys, automobiles and talking machines, wall board and bis- cuits; these random shots ind. cute somewhat the scope of ex- hibits on display. Generous samples of many kinds of food and drink are offered the visitor. At one row of three stands the hungry observer may obtain in rapid successign ice cream, jam and horseradish! Altho both exhibit floors were i | kane, was second, viewed by hundreds of persons Mon- day, the exposition was not officially opened until Tuesday at 10 a. m. for delegates, and from 2 to 10 p, m. for the public. MAYER DELIVERS WELCOME ADDRESS At noon Tuesday the visiting dete- | gates were given a luncheen in the | roof garden of the terminal, at) which time Mayor Edwin J. Brown | delivered an address of welcome. He | was introduced by A. B. Galloway, | chairman of the convention, Followed a style show, staged un. | der the @irection of the Pacific | Northwest merchants, at which the most shapely and attractive models obtainable displayed the latest in fashions. | Band concerts were arranged for | 2:80 and 7:30 p. m. Tuesday evening delegates to the | convention were to be guests of the city at The Wayfarer performance, | On Wednesday the same general program will be adhered to, except that in the evening the delegates will be taken on an excursion’ to the Smith Cove terminals of the port | commission, there to be entertained | and to inspect the big steamship President Madison, The first delegate to register Monday was C, B. Bloom of Couer @Alene, Idaho, Paul Ostrom, Spo Third was A. E./ Edwards, of Old Hamilton, Alaska. | He is believed to have traveled the longest time to get to the convention. It took him 18 days by steamer, jdown and another arrested. Green pfiority be given interchange and | turn. of empty cars intended transportation of the designated essary commodities. . STRIKE TREAT) IS TURNED DOW ST. LOUIS, July 25—A fi said, to reliéve rapidly congestion, Five other roads—the Wabash, Frisco, C. Peoria & St. Louis, and hereafter will be “subject to delay.” ° ° control as will safeguard (Turn to Page 7, Column 4), SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., July 28 —Chief United States Deputy Man - shal E. S. Greenwood today, oe conference with Sheriff W. A. 81 announced that stern repression of | @tsorder would be his policy in the shopmen's strike, following the #1 of last night when two deputy man shals were beaten, one striker struch: wood leftpfor Los Angeles today td apply for 25 moré deputies. Federal warrants are to be tssued during the day against 15 strikers, The rioting occurred last when a torpedo was placed on the Santa Fe tracks, stopping pie and {n a general fight which fo! between. strikers and strikel a two shots were fired. Fire Sweeps Wheat Land, Huge Damage PENDLETON, Ore. July - Damage estimated at abcut $50, was done Monday night by a which swept over 1,000 acres of finest wheat land in Umatilla county, — belonging to the Peringer Rai Cag on the Umatilla Indian rv tion, eight miles east of The fire is believed to have started from smut, More than 100 men from eurround: ing ranches stopped harvesting work and joined inthe fire fighting, i Sen. Poindexter to Give Talk Tonight Senator Miles Poindexter will make his first Seattle speech in hig campaign for re-election at 8 p.m ‘Tuesday, at the Wilkes theater, He will be introduced by Livingston BR. Stedman, president of the King County Poindexter club,